Draft Seeds Bill, 2019
The revised draft Seeds Bill 2019, which the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare placed in the public domain recently for suggestions and comments, seems to be a watered down version of a draft
Seeds
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INEVITABLE TRAGEDY
SOPAN JOSHI travels through Andhra Pradesh, only to find that beyond the immediate crisis of state wide farmers suicide lies one decade of neglect. Of agriculture, which sustains 70 per cent of its people, actually rendered unproductive and life denying.
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Food: Open sesame
The <i>til</> can enhance the nutritional value and flavour of many dishes
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Seed crisis
Usually, end-November/December is a busy one for cultivators in Kurigram district of northern Bangladesh: it is time to sow the boro (winter) rice. But this year, as the sowing deadline loomed, an
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Farmers' battle for seed rights
A struggle by farmers in Chhattisgarh to protect indigenous seed varieties from being appropriated by multinational corporations is snowballing into a major movement in the State. Women working in the
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Seed crisis
AP farmers feel the crunch
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Seed congress surreptitiously endorses transgenic varieties
did the World Seed Congress 2003 held under a cloak of secrecy in Bangalore from June 7 to 11 have a hidden agenda? It transpires that the conference digressed from the stated objective of pump priming the Indian seed industry and, instead, ended up s
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Seeds of hope
GM technology overcomes its main drawback
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Follow up
crisis tided over: The dispute over seasonal fishing in the reserved forestland of Jambudwip island in West Bengal (see: Out of bounds, February 28, 2003) may be resolved in the near future. An
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Orissa's stick is Chhattisgarh s carrot
orissa might well be at the receiving end of one of Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi s pre poll sops meant to benefit his own states s forest dwellers
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Snowbolling
Illegal variants of GM seeds are threatening the future of cotton in India The biotech revolution in India has turned into a nightmare. At least in Gujarat, where cotton farmers are happily using illegal